Motivational Quotes

Body

I stand in awe of my body.

- Henry David Thoreau

Best Quotes about Body

The body is a community made up of its innumerable cells or inhabitants.

Edison, Thomas A.

Men renounce whatever they have in common with women so as to experience no commonality with women; and what is left, according to men, is one piece of flesh a few inches long, the penis. The penis is sensate; the penis is the man; the man is human; the penis signifies humanity.

Dworkin, Andrea

A sound mind in a sound body is a short but full description of a happy state in this world.

John Locke

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

Huxley, Aldous

The body is mortal, but the person dwelling in the body is immortal and immeasurable.

Bhagavad Gita

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.

Delacroix, Eugene

Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.

Goncourt, Edmond and Jules De

The body is a sacred garment.

Martha Graham

An impersonal and scientific knowledge of the structure of our bodies is the surest safeguard against prurient curiosity and lascivious gloating.

Stopes, Marie Carmichael

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Over the years your bodies become walking autobiographies, telling friends and strangers alike of the minor and major stresses of your lives.

Marilyn Ferguson

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Oh, darling, let your body in, let it tie you in, in comfort.

Anne Sexton

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Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

Miller, Henry

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Man consists of two parts, his mind and his body, only the body has more fun.

Allen, Woody

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Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing peace is the measure.

Melton, George

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What was my body to me? A kind of flunkey in my service. Let but my anger wax hot, my love grow exalted, my hatred collect in me, and that boasted solidarity between me and my body was gone.

Saint-Exupery, Antoine De

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The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation.

George Santayana

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My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. [Listing what body parts he has broken]

Chan, Jackie

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The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

Mindell, Thomas Arnold

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The body is shaped, disciplined, honored, and in time, trusted.

Martha Graham

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Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

Gloria Steinem

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The basic Female body comes with the following accessories: garter belt, panty-girdle, crinoline, camisole, bustle, brassiere, stomacher, chemise, virgin zone, spike heels, nose ring, veil, kid gloves, fishnet stockings, fichu, bandeau, Merry Widow, weepers, chokers, barrettes, bangles, beads, lorgnette, feather boa, basic black, compact, Lycra stretch one-piece with modesty panel, designer peignoir, flannel nightie, lace teddy, bed, head.

Atwood, Margaret

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[The body is] a marvelous machine...a chemical laboratory, a power-house. Every movement, voluntary or involuntary, full of secrets and marvels!

Theodor Herzl

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Why do we spend years using up our bodies to nurture our minds with experience and find our minds turning then to our exhausted bodies for solace?

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I finally realized that being grateful to my body was key to giving more love to myself.

Oprah Winfrey

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The mind's first step to self-awareness must be through the body.

George Sheehan

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In order to live a fully human life we require not only control of our bodies (though control is a prerequisite); we must touch the unity and resonance of our physicality, our bond with the natural order, the corporeal grounds of our intelligence.

Rich, Adrienne

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The only bodily organ which is really regarded as inferior is the atrophied penis, a girl's clitoris.

Freud, Sigmund

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It is so much more difficult to live with one's body than with one's soul. One's body is so much more exacting: what it won't have it won't have, and nothing can make bitter into sweet.

Lawrence, D. H.

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Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads.

Lichtenberg, Georg C.

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Safeguard the health both of body and soul.

Cleobulus

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Our bodies are our gardens to which our wills are gardeners.

William Shakespeare

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The human body has two ends on it: one to create with and one to sit on. Sometimes people get their ends reversed. When this happens they need a kick in the seat of the pants.

Oech, Roger Von

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Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure which and be pointed out by your finger.

Cicero

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Your body is the church where Nature asks to be reverenced.

Sade, Marquis De

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The function of muscle is to pull and not to push, except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Da Vinci, Leonardo

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The human body is not a thing or substance, given, but a continuous creation. The human body is an energy system which is never a complete structure; never static; is in perpetual inner self-construction and self-destruction; we destroy in order to make it new.

Brown, Norman O.

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I am convinced that life in a physical body is meant to be an ecstatic experience.

Shakti Gawain

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Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body.

Pythagoras

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Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack.

Henry Miller

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He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

Gaskell, Elizabeth

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All we actually have is our body and its muscles that allow us to be under our own power.

Allegra Kent

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I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal.

Eugene Delacroix

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It is confidence in our bodies, minds and spirits that allows us to keep looking for new adventures, new directions to grow in, and new lessons to learn - which is what life is all about.

Oprah Winfrey

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Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing - peace is the measure.

George Melton

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The authority of any governing institution must stop at its citizen's skin.

Steinem, Gloria

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Every man is the builder of a temple called his body.

Henry David Thoreau

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When human beings have been fascinated by the contemplation of their own hearts, the more intricate biological pattern of the female has become a model for the artist, the mystic, and the saint. When mankind turns instead to what can be done, altered, built, invented, in the outer world, all natural properties of men, animals, or metals become handicaps to be altered rather than clues to be followed.

Mead, Margaret

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Our bodies communicate to us clearly and specifically, if we are willing to listen to them.

Shakti Gawain

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There is but one temple in the universe and that is the body of man.

Novalis

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Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: One must not hide that! Then someone tells you: The shoulder is on the back. I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs.

Chanel, Coco